You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

But, if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, Who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man).

And why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come?" whose condemnation is just.

Now we know that whatsoever the law says, it speaks to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may be under the sentence of God;

What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness."

Does this happiness, therefore, come upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."

What, then, shall we say? Shall we persist in sin, that grace may abound?

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

What, then, shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be!

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."

You will say to me, then, "Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?"

Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"

What, then, shall we say? that gentiles who were not following after righteous obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

but the righteousness which is of faith speaks thus: "Say not in your heart, who shall ascend up into Heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down);

But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart; that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

For the Scripture says, "Whosoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

But they did not all obey the glad tidings. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who believed our report?"

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, verily, "Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited earth."

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

But Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who sought Me not; I became manifest to those who sought not after Me."

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not cast off His people whom He foreknew. Or know ye not what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:

But what says the answer of God to him? "I left for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

And David says, "Let their table be a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he night to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God divided to each one a measure of faith.

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse, and He Who riseth up to rule over the gentiles, on Him will the gentiles hope."